Latest News : Wikipedia Taken Offline by Massive DDoS Attack

1. Wikipedia Taken Offline by Massive DDoS Attack https://antivirus.comodo.com/blog/computer-safety/wikipedia-taken-offline-massive-ddos-attack/

2. Wikipedia DDOS Attack: Wikipedia Hacked, Down for Users Across the Globe • A massive DDOS cyber attack on Friday forced Wikipedia offline in several countries across Europe and in parts of the Middle East. • Malicious attack that has taken it offline in several countries,” including Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Israel, Kuwait, and Poland. https://antivirus.comodo.com/blog/computer-safety/wikipedia-taken-offline-massive-ddos-attack/

3. The attack is ongoing and our Site Reliability Engineering team is working hard to stop it and restore access to the site. • Wikipedia has long been a favorite target for online vandalism and hoaxes, but this believed to be is the first time it has suffered a major cyberattack that succeeded in taking it offline. • Responsibility for the attack was claimed via Twitter by a previously unknown cybercriminal or cybercriminal group called “UKDrillas.”  https://antivirus.comodo.com/blog/computer-safety/wikipedia-taken-offline-massive-ddos-attack/

4. A DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack is an attack in which a website is rendered unavailable to its intended users due to an overwhelming number of requests from a network of infected computers, causing its servers to crash.  • “Wikipedia’s continued success as a top-10 website that has hundreds of millions of users makes it a target for vandalism, hacking, and other cybersecurity threats that harm the free knowledge movement and community,” said John Bennett, Director of Security at the Wikimedia Foundation. https://antivirus.comodo.com/blog/computer-safety/wikipedia-taken-offline-massive-ddos-attack/

5. DDOS Attack Prevention • The main reasons for DDOS attacks can be divided into three categories: • Extortion- The attacker demands money in exchange for stopping the attack • Retaliation- The attacker attacks the website in response to something they did or said, or a personal vendetta • Misdirection- The attack is intended to distract the website’s security team from some other attacks happening somewhere else https://antivirus.comodo.com/blog/computer-safety/wikipedia-taken-offline-massive-ddos-attack/

6. A good CDN with DDOS protection is essential for companies to stay protected from DDOS attacks. Other important measures to stop a DDOS attack include: Awareness: Website owners and security professionals must be aware that any website can fall victim to a DDOS attack. Never believe that your site is too big or too small to be a target. Monitoring traffic: Continuous monitoring is essential to protecting websites from DDOS attacks. An application layer DDOS attack, which sends a huge volume of traffic to your servers, can be prevented with careful traffic monitoring. Web Application Firewall (WAF): A web application firewall is considered one of the best defenses against the most common types of DDOS attacks. A WAF will allow you to set policies and rules to block malicious IPs, bot signatures, and other signs of DDOS attacks. https://antivirus.comodo.com/blog/computer-safety/wikipedia-taken-offline-massive-ddos-attack/

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